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linked_puffb...@comcast.net wrote:
Dear Jon Turney,
Today I installed cygwin from scratch on a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I have gotten the "Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font." message when starting xterm. I would suggest as a workaround that users experiencing this problem try uninstalling the font-alias package. (The version I installed and uninstalled several times is 1.0.1-1.) Uninstalling and reinstalling this eliminated and recreated problems. The last time I reinstalled it, it did not cause the the above problem, but did cause the default path to come up wrong in tcsh and bash.
I think the underlying problem may be related to the fact that postinstall
scripts do not seem to be running correctly on this machine. For different
packages, I see similar messages in setup.log.full along the lines of those
shown below. I believe it may be happening for every postinstall script,
because they all take a very long time, as if they were timing out.
Sincerely,
David
from setup.log.full
2009/06/14 14:25:07 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/font-alias.sh
5 [main] sh 4436 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
1278289 [main] sh 4436 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
3492971 [main] sh 4436 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
7629204 [main] sh 4436 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
15769988 [main] sh 4436 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
/etc/postinstall/font-alias.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
6 [main] sh 3288 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
1296137 [main] sh 3288 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
3463129 [main] sh 3288 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
7628057 [main] sh 3288 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
15771513 [main] sh 3288 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
/etc/postinstall/font-alias.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
6 [main] sh 4244 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
1247804 [main] sh 4244 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
3417015 [main] sh 4244 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
7551184 [main] sh 4244 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
15694516 [main] sh 4244 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
/etc/postinstall/font-alias.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
6 [main] sh 3628 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
1250144 [main] sh 3628 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
3401141 [main] sh 3628 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
7535070 [main] sh 3628 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
15678284 [main] sh 3628 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
/etc/postinstall/font-alias.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
6 [main] sh 4536 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
1247102 [main] sh 4536 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
3383669 [main] sh 4536 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
7518999 [main] sh 4536 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
15631750 [main] sh 4536 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
/etc/postinstall/font-alias.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
6 [main] sh 4384 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x100, errno 11
1232152 [main] s